"Be careful of having the water meter checked in your country in this Dama era."

'Just as new words are being added to the English language all the
time — the Oxford English Dictionary this year added "twerking" and
"sext" — so, too, is Chinese evolving, although for very different
reasons.

'Chinese netizens are finding all sorts of creative ways
to avoid the censors’ filters, coming up with a whole new vocab to talk
about sensitive subjects. Many of them require only a slight tweak in
tone to sound like something entirely different.

'This year, 25 new words or phrases have been added to an unofficial lexicon collating these terms.

'In
"Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang," authors
Perry Link and Xiao Qiang write that linguistic innovations have helped
the Internet seem like a “new, open realm” in a China where plenty of
subjects remain taboo.'